Hi, I will be participating in this symposium to represent what is happening
in the local community and how Cornell and the community might partner in
reducing greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, carbon offsets,
and renewables. Come to the symposium or the Iscol Lecture later in the day.
Gay
P.S. Note also that Senator Wirth will deliver the Iscol Lecture following
the symposium at 4:30 PM on April 17 in Call Auditorium and will be
participating in a Q & A session as part of the Seminar in Sustainable
Development
class on Friday, April 18 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM in Sage B01
2008 Iscol Lecture Program
featuring
Timothy E. Wirth
President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
Former U.S. Congressman, Senator and Undersecretary of State for Global
Affairs
Symposium
Evaluating and Managing Human Impacts on the Environment
Thursday, April 17 -- 12:30 - 3:30 PM
429 ILR Conference Center
A 3 hour symposium designed to explore and debate various topics relating to
climate change and its impacts, future environmental and climate policy
developments, and the role that leading universities can play in mitigating
human
impact globally.
Moderator: Art DeGaetano, Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences;
Director, NE Regional Climate Center
The symposium is divided into three 45-minute segments as follows:
12:30 - 1:30 pm --Reducing Cornell and Tompkins County's carbon footprint
This session will focus on the potential for conflicts and for partnerships
in efforts to reduce Cornell and Tompkins County's carbon footprint.
Session Facilitator: Timothy J. Fahey, Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor,
Natural Resources
Presenters: Kyu Whang, Vice-President, Cornell University Facilities
Services
Steven Wolf, Assistant Professor, Natural Resources
Carlos Rymer, student, Science of Natural and Environmental
Systems
Gay Nicholson, Program Coordinator, Sustainable Tompkins
1:30 - 2:30 pm -- Future Energy Systems
Future energy systems and the policies surrounding them will be examined
with students from the MAE 501: Future Energy Systems class offering questions
for your comment. The following facilitators will also be on site to keep the
session on target and moving.
Session Facilitators: K. Max Zhang, Assistant. Professor, Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering
Timothy Mount, Professor, Applied Economics and Management
Richard Schuler, Professor, Civil and Environmental
Engineering
Robert Thomas, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
2:30 - 3:30 pm -- Do biofuels increase or decrease overall greenhouse gas
emissions?
Professors Oliver Gao and Peter Hess survey available lifecycle models and
the model used at Cornell.
Session Moderator: Art DeGaetano, Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Presenters: H. Oliver Gao, Assistant Professor, School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
Peter Hess, Associate Professor, Biological and Environmental Engineering
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